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Cat Stevens - Matthew & Son / New Masters
(1967, Deram/London) Two albums, both released in '67, combined into one gatefold 2 LP set



listening to the New Masters LP.

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Battlefield Band - self titled
(1977, Topic) UK pressing

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Ian Matthews - Some Days You Eat The Bear ...Some Days The Bear Eats You
(1974, Elektra) Promo/NFS WLP



with David Lindley, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter --> and a cover of Steely Dan's "Dirty Work".

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Tangerine Dream - Optical Race
(1988, Private Music) Promo/NFS with gold seal stamp on back cover; MASTERDISK BK in the deadwax; mastered by Bill Kipper at Masterdisk



a $1 thrift store find this week. Nice punchy electronic music from Edgar Froese, "produced on the Atari ST using Steinberg - Jones software".

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Moby Grape - Wow
(1968, Columbia) 1971 issue on the ColumbiaColumbiaColumbia orange label



I have a nice original issue on the 2-eyes label, but I couldn't resist grabbing another nice copy when it turned up.

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Van the man! ...apparently you can see here in some of the songs how he was heading towards 1968's Astral Weeks. nice.

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Triumvirat - Old Loves Die Hard
(1976, Capitol) Canadian pressing; MASTERED BY CAPITOL in the deadwax

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Van the man! ...apparently you can see here in some of the songs how he was heading towards 1968's Astral Weeks. nice.

Yeah, like Hey Girl or My Lonely Sad Eyes. Beautiful songs.
Them was so influential for many garage bands all over the world.
Even after Morrison they had some cool stuff like this '67 US garage adventure
with legendary Kim Fowley



or this psych and raga influenced '68 Lp on Tower Records

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Danny Carnahan & Robin Petrie - Two For The Road
(1985, Flying Fish)

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Tropea - self titled
(1975, Marlin) STERLING in the deadwax



John Tropea jazz guitarist and NYC session player - he played several tracks on Van Morrison's Veedon Fleece. included here Deodato, Randy Brecker, Michael Brecker, Stephen Gadd, David Sanborn. Larry Fast from Synergy is credited for Moog synthesizer programming.

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John Mayall's Blues Breakers - Bare Wires
(1968, London) Bell Sound sf in the deadwax; mastered by Sam Feldman at Bell Sound Studios

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earlier...

Jackie DeShannon - New Image
(1967, Liberty) Stereo



now...

Shirley Bassey - Is Really "Something"
(1970, United Artists)

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Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes - Expansions
(1975, Flying Dutchman)

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Various Artists - Current Cuts 1971
(1971, CTI) VAN GELDER in the deadwax